Cisco Wide Area Application Services v2.0

5-day Hands-on Cisco Authorized Course

Course Description

Cisco Wide-Area Application Services (CWAAS) v2.0 is an instructor-led course that will teach learners how to design and deploy a solution using Cisco WAAS that improves application performance over the WAN while enabling infrastructure consolidation. The learner will also understand Cisco WAAS optimization technology, design considerations, network integration, and system troubleshooting aspects.

Course Objectives

In this course you will learn how to:

• Explain the business value of WAN optimization and application acceleration technologies and understand the technologies employed by Cisco WAAS to enable consolidation while improving application performance over the WAN
• Describe the basic configuration steps required for Cisco WAAS deployment and provide a high-level overview of Cisco WAAS deployment options
• Describe Cisco WAAS implementation, integration, and management
• Implement each of the Cisco WAAS application optimizers for maximum performance
• Describe how to design and troubleshoot Cisco WAAS installations, including considerations and issues associated with platform and network connectivity, network interception, and WAN optimization
• Describe and deploy the Cisco WAAS Mobile Client solution

Intended Audience

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

• Network designers
• Network administrators
• Network engineers
• Server and system administrators
• Systems engineers

The secondary audience for this course is as follows:

• Network managers

Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:

• Fundamental knowledge of TCP/IP and associated TCP/IP applications, equivalent to those learned in Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 1 (ICND1)
• Operational knowledge of Cisco routers, equivalent to those learned in Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 1 (ICND1)
• Fundamental knowledge of Microsoft Windows networking technologies

Course Outline

• Module 1: Cisco Wide-Area Application Services
• Lesson 1: Introducing Cisco WAAS
• Lesson 2: Understanding WAN Optimization
• Lesson 3: Understanding Application Acceleration
• Module 2: Cisco WAAS Quick Start
• Lesson 1: Introducing Traffic Interception
• Lesson 2: Installing and Configuring Cisco WAAS Using Quick Start
• Module 3: Implementation, Integration, and Management
• Lesson 1: Network Design, Interception, and Interoperability
• Lesson 2: Configuring Cisco WAE Interfaces
• Lesson 3: Implementing Cisco WAAS Central Management
• Lesson 4: Configuring Application Traffic Policies
• Lesson 5: Configuring Virtualization
• Module 4: Cisco WAAS Application Optimizers
• Lesson 1: Configuring CIFS Optimization
• Lesson 2: Configuring Cisco WAAS Network Printing Optimization
• Lesson 3: Configuring NFS Optimization
• Lesson 4: Configuring HTTP Optimization
• Lesson 5: Configuring Streaming Video Optimization
• Lesson 6: Configuring MAPI Optimization
• Lesson 7: Understanding SSL Optimization
• Module 5: Cisco WAAS Design and Troubleshooting
• Lesson 1: Planning a Cisco WAAS Network Design
• Lesson 2: Troubleshooting Introduction
• Lesson 3: Troubleshooting Network Interception
• Lesson 4: Troubleshooting WAN Optimization
• Module 6: Cisco WAAS Mobile Client Solution
• Lesson 1: Installing Cisco WAAS Mobile
• Lesson 2: Configuring Cisco WAAS Mobile Options
• Lesson 3: Troubleshooting Cisco WAAS Mobile

Course Labs

• Lab 2-1: Cisco WAAS Quick Start (In-Line)
• Lab 3-1: Configure the Cisco NME-WAE and WCCP
• Lab 3-2: Configure Custom Application Traffic Policies
• Lab 3-3: Configure the Branch Office Cisco WAE-674 for Virtualization
• Lab 4-1: Configuring Cisco WAAS NFS Acceleration
• Lab 4-2: Configuring Cisco WAAS MAPI Acceleration
• Lab 5-1: Design Cisco WAAS Solutions
• Lab 6-1: Configure Cisco WAAS Mobile Client